In 2008, a deadly virus was unleashed upon the unsuspecting denizens of the planet Earth. It was supposed to cure men and women of all genetically derived deviant tendencies. This cure was the invention of prominent feminist and world-renowned anthropologist and behaviorist Dr. Alexandra Madison. A genius and quite possibly the most famous graduate of MIT in modern times. The United States Government, under the leadership of democratic President Barry O. agreed with her, and the miraculous cure was administered to twenty thousand supposedly willing human test subjects in correctional institutions across the USA. The cure was meant to cure the wicked. Men and women who were the most violent of all criminal offenders. The psychopaths and the sociopaths. The men and women among the population who completely lacked a conscience. Those who were considered truly irredeemable. For the next month or so, everything worked well. They returned to normal, losing all dark impulses and becoming truly decent human beings.
Unfortunately, things didn't stay that way. The peace and tranquility created by the cure did not least. The virus mutated, and had an unforeseen effect. For starters, it killed all individuals under the age of twenty and over the age of fifty five. Billions of human beings died. The rest were split into two groups. The first group included the Blessed, those who were immune to the effects of the virus, and they numbered around six million. The second group included the Cursed, those who had been mutated by the virus and didn't die.
These Cursed were those men and women which completely devolved into sex-craving creatures who were sterile, and seemingly stopped aging altogether, yet nevertheless craved the flesh of living beings as well as all manners of rough, violent, weird and kinky sex. They became almost exclusively nocturnal and were incapable of human speech as a result of devolving to an almost animal-like level. The mutated virus was contained in their saliva and through it, they would infect the Blessed, those human beings who were immune to the First Strain, that portion of the virus which killed all the people. A Blessed human being who exchanged bodily fluids with the Cursed became one of the Cursed. The Blessed numbered six million. They were determined to repopulate the planet Earth and rebuild civilization. Unfortunately, the Cursed numbered one billion. Every night, the Cursed came out and went after the Blessed. It was a war fought on all continents to determine who would become the rightful rulers of the planet.
The year is 2020. My name is Daryl Stephen Alston, and I think I just might be the last living, non-infected, fully intelligent human being on the planet. I'm a tall black man in his twenty eight year on this planet, a man who has been prematurely aged by the nightmares he has seen. I am currently living in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Why Boston? For starters, it's where I was born. I lived here with my father, Civil Engineer James Alston, and my mother, Emerson College professor Lana Albright. I had a little brother named Malcolm. We led peaceful lives in the city. Just a family in the big city with our ups and downs. Then, all changed in 2008.
The world ended. I am still living in the same neighborhood where I grew up. Boston is still my home. This once-magnificent city lies in ruins. Most of the people I knew are dead, including my family members. Those who didn't die, well, let's just say that I don't want to see them. They've all turned into nearly exclusively nocturnal, sex-craving, mindless freaks. You might think, what's the harm? What's wrong with people craving sex? Hey, I am not a prude by any means. A whole planet full of people who crave sex? That doesn't sound like a plague, it sounds like the party of the century. It doesn't sound so bad. Well, the reality was quite different.
These nearly exclusively nocturnal, mindless inhuman sex addicts aren't truly people anymore. People have minds. People have urges. People have needs. But people also know how to control themselves when they have to. These things don't have any semblance of self-control. At all. The very idea of them controlling themselves seems laughable to me because I've seen them at their worst. Have any of you ever seen a crack addict? They don't do it because they enjoy it. They stopped enjoying it the moment they got hooked. Getting hooked takes away all the pleasure out of something. The moment choice is taken away and want becomes need, pleasure is quite often removed, replaced by something else. One can live without pleasure. One cannot exist without meeting one's most basic needs. That's what this addiction is for these things. It's a need for them, just like going to the bathroom is a need for you. These things out there don't enjoy what they do. They do it because they must. They're slaves to indomitable instinct run completely amok. Mindless Monsters. To me, that's a fate worse than death.
I watched my entire world fall apart. Civilization crumbled. The Cursed roamed over all the cities in all the countries of the world. They found the Blessed where they hid, and transformed them by force. I was forced to watch the devolution of the entire human species. We went from intelligent and capable beings, the very top of the natural order, into subhuman creatures ruled by instinct rather than intelligence, sentience and reason. It was the single most disturbing thing I had ever seen. It was just wrong. Yet I couldn't close my eyes and will it away. Why? Simply because it was all around me.
In every street, every corner, every subway and every house. Men and women were affected by the virus, and either died and transformed into subhuman, sex-craving, mindless nocturnal maniacs. The Blessed, those who possessed some form of natural immunity from the devastating effects of the virus sought to hide from the Cursed, the devolved ones. Unfortunately, they were a little outnumbered. Alright, more than a little outnumbered. Keep in mind that these people were ordinary people whom random chance or some trick of nature made genetically different from the rest of humanity, thereby granting them partial immunity to the most devastating viral agent ever conceived. These people weren't soldiers, warriors, or survivalists. They were ordinary Joes and Janes placed in a decidedly unpleasant situation and thrust against impossible odds. They put up a brave fight. Some of them escaped onboard massive boats packed with supplies and roamed the world's oceans, avoiding the land since it was teeming with infected nocturnal Monsters.
Yeah, one by one the Cursed caught all of us who numbered among the Blessed. They captured us, ensnared us, seduced us and transformed us into their own kind. I am the last intelligent human being left on the planet Earth. By day, I roam all over the city of Boston, looking for weapons and food supplies. I'm alone. I have no one for company, not even a dog. By night, I stay hidden in a fortified bunker. The Cursed roam the land. They feed upon the animals they catch. When they catch a human being, they will have sex with him or her, and try to convert them using the virus. If that doesn't work, they will feed upon that nonconvertible human being. Get it? Cool.